TOA

Cards (119)

  • Pablo S. Antonio: 'Buildings should be planned with austerity in mind and its stability forever as the aim of true architecture, that buildings must be progressive, simple in design but dignified, true to a purpose without resorting to an applied set of aesthetics and should eternally recreate truth'
  • Leandro V. Locsin: 'Creating Architecture that is both modern & undeniably Filipino'
  • Francisco 'Bobby" Manosa: 'Architecture must respond to local conditions'
  • Gabriel Formoso: 'honesty of conception and the principled concern for human requirements transcending the irrelevancies of prejudice and instinct'
  • Pragmatic Approach to Architecture
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  • Gilbert Yu: 'A Pragmatic Approach to Architecture'
  • Ramon S. Licup: 'Good Architecture is not based on Design but on the buildings function'
  • Felipe Mendoza: 'He Makes the fullest possible use of natural light & ventilation'
  • William Vargas Coscolluela: 'More on Vertical Approach'
  • Ceasar Homero Concio: 'The structure must be well oriented'
  • Intelligent Buildings
    Office buildings are no longer simply spaces but are now termed Intelligent Buildings
  • Claude Edwin Andrews: 'Office buildings are no longer simply spaces but are now termed Intelligent Buildings'
  • Louis Kahn: 'Architecture is the reaching out for the truth'
  • Walter Gropius: 'Art and Architecture, the new unity'
  • Frank Lloyd Wright: 'Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union'
  • Antonio Gaudi: 'Form does not necessarily follow function'
  • Louis Kahn: 'A house is a house'
  • Le Corbusier: 'Cube within a cube'
  • Robert Venturi: 'Less is a bore'
  • Le Corbusier: 'The house is a machine for living in'
  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: 'Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space'
  • Daniel Burnham: 'Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die'
  • Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: 'Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity'
  • Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe: 'Less is more'
  • Philip Johnson: 'All architects want to live beyond their deaths'
  • Eliel Saarinen: 'Architectural–form equals social–form'
  • Kenzo Tange: 'Modern architecture need not to be Western'
  • Eero Saarinen: 'Function influence but does not dictate form'
  • Daniel Burnham: 'Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood'
  • Eliel Saarinen: 'Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas'
  • Robert Maillart: 'A bridge is like a house'
  • Auguste Perret: 'Truth is indispensable to Architecture & architectural lie concepts'
  • Oscar Niemeyer: 'Form follows beauty'
  • Pier Luigi Nervi: 'Structural correctness, which is identical with functional, technical & economic is a necessary & sufficient condition of satisfactory aesthetic result'
  • Erich Mendelsohn: 'Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself'
  • Adolf Loos: 'Supply and demand regulate architecture form'
  • Erich Mendelsohn: 'Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight'
  • Philip Johnson: 'Architecture is the art of how to waste space'
  • Marcel Lajos Breuer: 'Architecture is a social art'
  • Walter Gropius: 'Architecture begins where engineering ends'